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The Waking 
  
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. 
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. 
I learn by going where I cannot go.
  
We think by feeling. What is there to know? 
I hear my being dance from ear to ear. 
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  
Of those so close beside me, which are you? 
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there, 
And learn by going where I have to go.
  
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how? 
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; 
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  
Great Nature has another thing to do 
To you and me; so take the lively air, 
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
  
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. 
What falls away is always. And is near. 
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. 
I learn by going where I have to go.
 
 
  
--Theodore Roethke
                  
                  
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
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                      Monday, March 10, 2003
                      
                    
                      
                    
                    Possums Made The List
 
 The search requests have become more interesting.  Someone even did a search for my hair.  Maybe it's famous.  Perhaps they, too, want the Chia pet look.  Which one of you typed that one in there?  Go on, tell me!  Notice how odd some of these combinations are.  I think about it and type in really odd combinations now when I'm avoiding useful activities.  Anything to fritter away my life, I suppose.  I'm considering as a public service providing the phone number for the Roxy Theater's recording of their movie schedule.  If I'm in a really generous mood, I might even post it here.  Wouldn't that be nice of me?  For now, here's a list of the most recent searches.
 
 Yahoo:  baja burrito menu, nashville, tn   
 MSN Search:  opossum cartoon characters   
 Google:  "detachable arms and legs" monty python   
 Google:  +lymphoma+mouth   
 Google:  roxy movie theater dickson tn   
 MSN Search:   pictures of horse's having babies   
 Google:  horse mouth pictures   
 Google:  roxy theater dickson tennessee   
 Google:  dickson movie theater the roxy   
 Yahoo:  the roxy movie theater dickson tennessee   
 Google:  "charlie kaufman" bafta "acceptance speech"   
 Yahoo:  horse jobs for teenagers in florida   
 Google:  Saul Zaentz bush bafta   
 Google:  "Roger Ebert" thyroid mouth   
 Yahoo:  nature vs nurture jokes   
 MSN Search:  horse birthing pictures    
 Yahoo:  bafta acceptance speech streep   
 Yahoo:  Joy Durham Hair Etc.   
 MSN Search:  lymphedema and stem cells   
 Google:  roger ebert mouth problems   
 
                    
                     
                    
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